Taken together, the results of the assessments for learning outcomes and authentic intellectual performance help to inform the relative effectiveness of puzzle-based pedagogies as a tool for "open" or "experiential" learning theories in comparison with more didactic theories, the primary vehicle of which is a traditional lecture based pedagogy [ 8].
Our aim in this special issue is the application of the PDE framework to additional case studies and to further articulate its overlap with other theoretical frameworks (e.g., the joint action theory didactic framework; Sensevy, 2007).
The curriculum, which comprised of three 1-hour portions - a didactic session describing QI theory, a "brainstorming" session for potential projects and a presentation session where residents presented their project to the resident group, found that the CQI curriculum significantly improved residents' knowledge, perceived knowledge and self-efficacy [ 8].
Indeed, many programs don't even try to be rehabilitative; they consist of didactic lectures based on feminist theory: domestic violence results not from individual personal or moral deficits but from an abuser's belief that he has the right to inflict his will on his partner.
Out of identified general didactic problems when teaching evolutionary theory, structured learning situations for pre-service teacher students were created together with performance assessment.
Architectural theory as a didactic or polemic pursuit (beyond De Architectura, which Vitruvius may have intended as a documentary effort) was launched in the Renaissance with Leon Battista Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria (1485).
Action competence offers a constitutive element of the German vocational system and a significant topic of scientific and political discourse since the early 1980s, particularly in relation to the didactic implications of action regulation theory (Hacker, 1986; Kuhl, 1994a1994b; Volpert, 1983).
Training included didactic sessions to address relevant theory, role play to promote use of appropriate language to describe household work and challenge gendered stereotypes, and practice in supporting parents in infant settling techniques.
Second, architectural theory comprises prescriptive, even didactic, expression the intent of which is to (a) promote given or new ways in which to do architecture and (b) ground architectural practice in moral, social, psychological, or theoretical bases.
